For decades, many homeless women in Memphis have been forced to sleep outside because there was no women's shelter. That is going to change. A new shelter was announced at a rare combined meeting of the Memphis City Council and County Commission. Local 24 News reporter Mike Matthews explains.
A man who was on parole is recovering after the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department says he was shot by a homeowner who caught him breaking into a home.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) -- Clean Memphis, Coliseum Coalition, and the City of Memphis are teaming up on a Coliseum Clean-up from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 27th.
It was a birthday bash for the record books Thursday. The city of Memphis celebrating its bicentennial with a block party at the Kroger on Poplar Plaza.
Tennessee could penalize paid voter registration groups with fines for too many incomplete signup forms and criminal penalties for submitting registration forms too late, under legislation passed Thursday by the state Senate.
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